The Trust API will always run in the background of your device, monitoring its sensors and information so that it can provide apps with the current trust score.

So instead of asking for a password, Abacus will analyze how you type and speak, and combined with other signals from the sensors in your phone, calculates the probability that you are who you say you are.

That probability will be known as a “Trust Score”.

Although..

API’s release depends upon a successful trial on several large financial institutions next month.

However, this appears to be a promising research, especially considering how terrible traditional passwords are, even when they’re coupled with two-factor authentication.